Washington Administrative Code
Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of
Chapter 296-806 - Machine safety
- Section 296-806-099 - Definitions
- Section 296-806-100 - Scope
- Section 296-806-200 - Requirements for all machines
- Section 296-806-20002 - Secure machines designed to stay in one place
- Section 296-806-20004 - Protect employees from slipping hazards around machinery
- Section 296-806-20006 - Arrange work areas to avoid creating hazards
- Section 296-806-20007 - Machine controls and operations
- Section 296-806-20008 - Make sure operating controls meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20010 - Protect employees from unintentional machine operation
- Section 296-806-20012 - Make sure emergency stop controls meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20014 - Control machine vibration
- Section 296-806-20016 - Prevent overspeed conditions
- Section 296-806-20018 - Make sure hand feeding and retrieval tools meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20020 - Protect employees who are adjusting or repairing machinery
- Section 296-806-20021 - Power transmission parts
- Section 296-806-20022 - Keep power transmission equipment in good working condition
- Section 296-806-20024 - Inspect power transmission parts
- Section 296-806-20026 - Protect employees lubricating moving machinery
- Section 296-806-20027 - Safeguarding requirements
- Section 296-806-20028 - Safeguard employees from the point of operation
- Section 296-806-20030 - Safeguard employees from nip or shear point hazards
- Section 296-806-20032 - Safeguard employees from rotating or revolving parts
- Section 296-806-20034 - Safeguard employees from reciprocating or other moving parts
- Section 296-806-20036 - Safeguard employees from flying objects
- Section 296-806-20038 - Safeguard employees from falling objects
- Section 296-806-20040 - Safeguard employees from moving surfaces with hazards
- Section 296-806-20041 - Safeguarding methods
- Section 296-806-20042 - Make sure guards meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20043 - Devices
- Section 296-806-20044 - Make sure devices meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20046 - Make sure light curtains meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20048 - Make sure pressure-sensitive mats meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20050 - Make sure restraint or pullback devices meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20052 - Make sure two-hand devices meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20054 - Make sure devices used with barrier guards meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-20055 - Distance
- Section 296-806-20056 - Make sure safeguarding by distance meets these requirements
- Section 296-806-20058 - Make sure guardrails used for safeguarding meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-300 - Requirements for specific machine hazards
- Section 296-806-30002 - Fit arbors and mandrels to the machine
- Section 296-806-30004 - Safeguard belt and rope drives
- Section 296-806-30006 - Make sure belt or rope drives meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-30008 - Protect employees while shifting belts on belt and pulley drives
- Section 296-806-30010 - Make sure belt tighteners meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-30012 - Safeguard cams, connecting rods, tail rods, and extension piston rods
- Section 296-806-30014 - Safeguard chain and sprocket drives
- Section 296-806-30016 - Safeguard fan blades
- Section 296-806-30017 - Flywheels
- Section 296-806-30018 - Safeguard flywheels
- Section 296-806-30020 - Safeguard gears
- Section 296-806-30022 - Safeguard projections on moving parts
- Section 296-806-30024 - Safeguard pulleys
- Section 296-806-30026 - Make sure pulleys meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-30028 - Safeguard revolving drums, barrels, and containers
- Section 296-806-30030 - Safeguard shafting
- Section 296-806-30032 - Make sure shafting meets these requirements
- Section 296-806-30034 - Safeguard unused keyways
- Section 296-806-30036 - Make sure revolving collars meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-30038 - Safeguard counterweights
- Section 296-806-400 - Additional requirements for some machines and machine operations
- Section 296-806-405 - Abrasive wheels
- Section 296-806-40502 - Make sure abrasive wheels and machines are properly designed and constructed
- Section 296-806-40504 - Make sure machines have safety guards
- Section 296-806-40506 - Make sure safety guards meet specific requirements
- Section 296-806-40508 - Provide a tongue guard on bench, pedestal, floorstand, and cylindrical grinders
- Section 296-806-40510 - Use a work rest for off-hand grinding
- Section 296-806-40511 - Mounting abrasive wheels
- Section 296-806-40512 - Make sure abrasive wheels are safe to use
- Section 296-806-40514 - Mount wheels properly
- Section 296-806-40516 - Use proper flanges
- Section 296-806-40518 - Make sure flanges are in good condition
- Section 296-806-40520 - Use specific flanges for Type 1 cutting-off wheels
- Section 296-806-40522 - Use specific flanges for Type 27A cutting-off wheels
- Section 296-806-40524 - Use blotters when required
- Section 296-806-40526 - Meet specific blotter requirements when using modified Types 6 and 11 wheels (terrazzo)
- Section 296-806-410 - Calender
- Section 296-806-41002 - Provide calender safety controls
- Section 296-806-41004 - Follow these stopping limit requirements for calenders
- Section 296-806-415 - Compactors
- Section 296-806-41502 - Safeguard hazardous moving parts of stationary compactors
- Section 296-806-41504 - Follow these requirements for compactor controls
- Section 296-806-41506 - Follow these requirements for compactor access doors and covers
- Section 296-806-41508 - Follow these requirements for compactors that cycle automatically
- Section 296-806-420 - Conveyors
- Section 296-806-42002 - Follow these requirements for conveyors
- Section 296-806-42004 - Provide emergency stops on conveyors
- Section 296-806-42006 - Label conveyor controls
- Section 296-806-42008 - Prohibit riding on conveyors
- Section 296-806-42010 - Provide safe access to conveyors
- Section 296-806-42012 - Provide backstop or antirunaway devices on incline, decline, or vertical conveyors
- Section 296-806-42014 - Make only safe alterations to conveyors
- Section 296-806-42016 - Inspect and replace worn conveyor parts
- Section 296-806-42018 - Follow these requirements for replacing conveyor parts
- Section 296-806-42020 - Follow these requirements for spill guards
- Section 296-806-42022 - Provide pedestrian overpasses for conveyors
- Section 296-806-42024 - Guard openings to hoppers and chutes
- Section 296-806-42026 - Install guideposts
- Section 296-806-42027 - Belt conveyors
- Section 296-806-42028 - Guard nip points on belt conveyors
- Section 296-806-42030 - Install emergency stop controllers on overland belt conveyors
- Section 296-806-42032 - Install belt conveyor overpasses
- Section 296-806-42033 - Chain converyors
- Section 296-806-42034 - Safeguard chain conveyors
- Section 296-806-42036 - Guard return strands on chain conveyors
- Section 296-806-42038 - Guard chain conveyors that are used as a transfer mechanism
- Section 296-806-42039 - Elevator conveyors
- Section 296-806-42040 - Prevent material from falling off of elevator conveyors
- Section 296-806-42041 - Inclined reciprocating conveyors (shakers)
- Section 296-806-42042 - Provide protection where employees must load shakers
- Section 296-806-42044 - Provide grating over silo and bunker openings for shuttle conveyors
- Section 296-806-42045 - Mobile conveyors
- Section 296-806-42046 - Guard wheels and rails on mobile conveyors
- Section 296-806-42048 - Prevent hazardous motion on mobile conveyors
- Section 296-806-42050 - Provide a detector for mobile conveyors
- Section 296-806-42052 - Provide safe access on mobile conveyors
- Section 296-806-42053 - Push-bar conveyors
- Section 296-806-42054 - Guard pusher-bar conveyors
- Section 296-806-42055 - Roller conveyors
- Section 296-806-42056 - Prohibit walking on roller-type conveyors
- Section 296-806-42058 - Use speed controls for roller and wheel conveyors
- Section 296-806-42060 - Safeguard belt-driven live roller conveyors
- Section 296-806-42061 - Screw conveyors
- Section 296-806-42062 - Guard screw conveyors
- Section 296-806-42063 - Skip hoists
- Section 296-806-42064 - Provide slack-cable switches on hoists
- Section 296-806-42066 - Block the skip bucket and counterweight guides
- Section 296-806-42068 - Protect against wire rope coming off sheaves
- Section 296-806-42069 - Slat and roller-slat conveyors
- Section 296-806-42070 - Safeguard slat and roller-slat conveyors
- Section 296-806-42071 - Towed conveyors
- Section 296-806-42072 - Provide a safe method for disengaging the tow pin
- Section 296-806-42074 - Protect employees from moving carts on towed conveyors
- Section 296-806-42076 - Provide clearances and warnings for carts on towed conveyors
- Section 296-806-42078 - Mark projections above the floor
- Section 296-806-425 - Food processing equipment
- Section 296-806-42502 - Provide locks on chamber doors of large air conditioning units
- Section 296-806-42504 - Use proper door locks on rack-type bread coolers
- Section 296-806-42506 - Provide see-through panels on fermentation room doors
- Section 296-806-42508 - Cover exposed hot pipes
- Section 296-806-42510 - Provide extension piping on stationary lubrication fittings
- Section 296-806-42512 - Provide hoods for pan-washing tanks
- Section 296-806-42514 - Safeguard proof boxes
- Section 296-806-42516 - Safeguard storage bins
- Section 296-806-42517 - Material handling
- Section 296-806-42518 - Follow these design requirements for bag lifts (bag arm elevators) and chutes
- Section 296-806-42520 - Follow these requirements for chain tackle
- Section 296-806-42522 - Safeguard conveyors
- Section 296-806-42524 - Use properly designed covers for screw conveyors (augers)
- Section 296-806-42526 - Safeguard pallet jacks and hand trucks
- Section 296-806-42527 - Specific food processing equipment
- Section 296-806-42528 - Safeguard bakery slicers
- Section 296-806-42530 - Safeguard bakery wrapping machines
- Section 296-806-42532 - Provide troughs with antifriction-bearing casters
- Section 296-806-42534 - Follow these requirements for trough hoists and similar equipment
- Section 296-806-42536 - Follow these requirements for dividers
- Section 296-806-42538 - Safeguard manually-fed dough and cross-roll brakes
- Section 296-806-42540 - Provide a guard or tripping device on reversible dough brakes
- Section 296-806-42542 - Follow these requirements for doughnut machines
- Section 296-806-42544 - Follow these requirements for dumpbins and blenders
- Section 296-806-42546 - Follow these requirements for flour-handling machines
- Section 296-806-42548 - Follow these requirements for traveling or track-type flour scales
- Section 296-806-42550 - Follow these requirements for food grinders and cutters
- Section 296-806-42552 - Provide covers with interlocks on ingredient premixers, emulsifiers, and similar machines
- Section 296-806-42554 - Follow these requirements for open fat kettles
- Section 296-806-42556 - Follow these requirements for steam kettles
- Section 296-806-42558 - Follow these requirements for chocolate melting, refining, and mixing kettles
- Section 296-806-42560 - Safeguard meat-processing equipment (circular meat-cutting saws)
- Section 296-806-42562 - Follow these requirements for horizontal dough mixers
- Section 296-806-42564 - Follow these requirements for vertical mixers
- Section 296-806-42566 - Follow these requirements for mechanical-feed moulders
- Section 296-806-42568 - Follow these requirements for hand-fed moulders
- Section 296-806-42570 - Design, install, and construct your ovens according to these requirements
- Section 296-806-42572 - Properly locate emergency "stop" buttons and main shut off valves for ovens
- Section 296-806-42574 - Inspect and test safety devices on ovens
- Section 296-806-42576 - Follow these requirements for peanut-cooling trucks
- Section 296-806-42578 - Follow these requirements for pretzel-rolling, pretzel stick extruding, rotary, and die machines
- Section 296-806-42580 - Safeguard box and roll-type dough sheeters
- Section 296-806-42582 - Provide proper enclosures for sifters
- Section 296-806-42584 - Follow these requirements for sugar and spice pulverizers
- Section 296-806-430 - Forging machines
- Section 296-806-43002 - Follow these safety requirements when using lead and lead casts
- Section 296-806-43004 - Properly inspect and maintain forging equipment
- Section 296-806-43006 - Use safety blocks on hammers and presses
- Section 296-806-43008 - Make sure tongs meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-43010 - Protect employees when removing scale
- Section 296-806-43012 - Provide adequate foundations for hammers and presses
- Section 296-806-43014 - Follow these requirements for manually operated valves and switches
- Section 296-806-43015 - Hammers
- Section 296-806-43016 - Use die keys and shims made of proper-grade material
- Section 296-806-43018 - Provide a safety cylinder head
- Section 296-806-43020 - Provide a shutoff valve
- Section 296-806-43022 - Provide a means for cylinder draining
- Section 296-806-43024 - Follow these requirements for pressure pipes
- Section 296-806-43026 - Follow these requirements when using board hammers
- Section 296-806-43027 - Other forge facility equipment
- Section 296-806-43028 - Protect against sparks from saws
- Section 296-806-435 - Garbage waste disposals
- Section 296-806-43502 - Safeguard garbage (waste) disposal equipment
- Section 296-806-440 - Glue spreaders
- Section 296-806-44002 - Provide guards and automatic shutoffs on glue spreaders
- Section 296-806-445 - Ironworkers
- Section 296-806-44502 - Safeguard ironworkers point of operation
- Section 296-806-44504 - Follow these requirements for adjustable restrictors when safeguarding ironworkers
- Section 296-806-450 - Lathes
- Section 296-806-45002 - Provide shields or guards on metal lathes for chip or coolant hazards
- Section 296-806-45004 - Safeguard work-holding devices (chucks)
- Section 296-806-45006 - Follow these requirements for chip control and handling
- Section 296-806-45008 - Safeguard power-clamping devices
- Section 296-806-45010 - Restrain extended workpieces on horizontal lathes
- Section 296-806-45011 - Woodworking lathes
- Section 296-806-45012 - Guard cutting heads on profile lathes and swing-head lathes
- Section 296-806-45014 - Guard cutting heads on turning lathes
- Section 296-806-45016 - Guard automatic turning lathes
- Section 296-806-45018 - Guard wood lathes used for turning long pieces of stock
- Section 296-806-455 - Mechanical power presses
- Section 296-806-45502 - Make sure mechanical power presses are properly designed and constructed
- Section 296-806-45503 - Safeguarding
- Section 296-806-45504 - Safeguard presses that use unitized tooling
- Section 296-806-45506 - Protect operators from guidepost hazards
- Section 296-806-45508 - Safeguard the point of operation
- Section 296-806-45510 - Make sure point-of-operation guards are properly designed and constructed
- Section 296-806-45512 - Make sure barrier guards meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-45514 - Make sure point-of-operation devices are effective
- Section 296-806-45516 - Make sure presence-sensing devices used to safeguard the point of operation meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-45518 - Make sure pull-back devices used to safeguard the point of operation meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-45520 - Make sure restraint (holdout) devices used to safeguard the point of operation meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-45522 - Make sure two-hand control devices used to safeguard the point of operation meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-45524 - Make sure two-hand trip devices used to safeguard the point of operation meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-45526 - Provide additional safeguards when the operator puts one or both hands into the point of operation
- Section 296-806-45527 - Operations
- Section 296-806-45528 - Establish die setting procedures
- Section 296-806-45530 - Handle dies safely
- Section 296-806-45532 - Protect die setters during setup and tryout
- Section 296-806-45534 - Train press operators
- Section 296-806-45536 - Operate mechanical power presses safely
- Section 296-806-45538 - Provide tools and other means to protect press operators
- Section 296-806-45540 - Inspect and maintain presses
- Section 296-806-45542 - Make sure presses and operating practices used in the PSDI (presence sensing device initiation) mode of operation meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-460 - Mills
- Section 296-806-46002 - Meet height requirements for mill rolls
- Section 296-806-46004 - Provide mill safety controls
- Section 296-806-46006 - Follow these stopping limit requirements for mills
- Section 296-806-465 - Press brakes Summary
- Section 296-806-46502 - Provide auxiliary safety aids on press brakes
- Section 296-806-46504 - Safeguard the point of operation on press brakes
- Section 296-806-46505 - Safe distance safeguarding
- Section 296-806-46506 - Follow this requirement when using safe distance safeguarding
- Section 296-806-46508 - Develop a safe distance safeguarding program for press brakes
- Section 296-806-46510 - Follow these requirements for safe distance training for press brakes
- Section 296-806-46512 - Require safe distance retraining for press brake operations
- Section 296-806-46514 - Conduct periodic safe distance inspections on press brakes
- Section 296-806-46516 - Supervise the safe distance program for press brakes
- Section 296-806-470 - Roll-forming and bending machines
- Section 296-806-47002 - Follow these requirements for machine initiation
- Section 296-806-47004 - Safeguard nip points of roll-forming and bending machines
- Section 296-806-475 - Sanding machines
- Section 296-806-47502 - Guard drum sanders
- Section 296-806-47504 - Guard disk sanders
- Section 296-806-47506 - Guard belt sanders
- Section 296-806-47508 - Follow these requirements for feed roll guarding
- Section 296-806-480 - Saws and cutting heads
- Section 296-806-48001 - General requirements for all saws and cutting heads
- Section 296-806-48002 - Protect employees using saws and cutting heads
- Section 296-806-48004 - Make sure saws and cutting heads are sharpened and tensioned by qualified people
- Section 296-806-48005 - General requirements for all saws
- Section 296-806-48006 - Make sure saws are safe to use
- Section 296-806-48007 - Requirements for all circular saws
- Section 296-806-48008 - Make sure all circular saws meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48010 - Make sure circular saw gages meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48012 - Safeguard hand-fed circular table saws
- Section 296-806-48014 - Provide kickback protection for employees using hand-fed circular table ripsaws when ripping wood products
- Section 296-806-48016 - Safeguard self-feed circular saws
- Section 296-806-48018 - Provide kickback protection for self-feed circular ripsaws when ripping wood products
- Section 296-806-48020 - Guard circular resaws
- Section 296-806-48022 - Provide spreaders for circular resaws
- Section 296-806-48023 - Requirements for specific circular saws
- Section 296-806-48024 - Protect employees from automatic saw hazards
- Section 296-806-48026 - Guard inverted swing (jump) saws
- Section 296-806-48028 - Guard miter saws
- Section 296-806-48030 - Guard radial saws
- Section 296-806-48032 - Limit the travel of radial saws
- Section 296-806-48034 - Provide kickback protection for radial saws used for ripping wood products
- Section 296-806-48036 - Guard revolving double arbor saws
- Section 296-806-48038 - Guard swing saws
- Section 296-806-48040 - Limit the travel of swing saws
- Section 296-806-48041 - Requirements for band saws and drag saws
- Section 296-806-48042 - Make sure band saws meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48044 - Protect employees from drag saw hazards
- Section 296-806-48045 - General requirements for all cutting heads
- Section 296-806-48046 - Maintain and balance knives and cutting heads
- Section 296-806-48047 - Boring and mortising machines
- Section 296-806-48048 - Make sure boring and mortising machines meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48049 - Chipper and hog mills
- Section 296-806-48050 - Follow these requirements for chipper mills
- Section 296-806-48052 - Follow these requirements for hog mills
- Section 296-806-48054 - Protect employees from falling into chipper and hog mills
- Section 296-806-48055 - Jointers
- Section 296-806-48056 - Make sure jointers with horizontal cutting heads meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48058 - Guard horizontal cutting heads on hand-fed jointers
- Section 296-806-48060 - Guard vertical cutting heads on jointers
- Section 296-806-48061 - Molding, sticking and matching machines
- Section 296-806-48062 - Make sure molding, sticking and matching machines meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48063 - Panel raisers and other similar machines
- Section 296-806-48064 - Guard hand-fed panel raisers and other similar machines
- Section 296-806-48065 - Planers
- Section 296-806-48066 - Make sure planers with a horizontal cutting head meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48068 - Guard planers
- Section 296-806-48070 - Guard planer feed rolls
- Section 296-806-48072 - Provide kickback protection on planers running stock of varied thicknesses
- Section 296-806-48073 - Shapers
- Section 296-806-48074 - Make sure shapers meet these requirements
- Section 296-806-48075 - Tenoning machines
- Section 296-806-48076 - Guard tenoning machine feed chains and sprockets
- Section 296-806-48078 - Guard tenoning machines
- Section 296-806-48079 - Veneer machines
- Section 296-806-48080 - Guard veneer cutters and wringer knives
- Section 296-806-48082 - Guard veneer clippers
- Section 296-806-48084 - Follow these requirements for guarding guillotine cutters
- Section 296-806-48086 - Provide mechanisms to stop power-driven guillotine cutters
- Section 296-806-48088 - Prohibit riders on veneer slicer carriages
- Section 296-806-485 - Sewing machines
- Section 296-806-48502 - Guard sewing machine needles
- Section 296-806-500 - Definitions (Repealed)
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